My "Pinterest is feminine" bias was forever crushed when I found links and pictures of hardcore biker fashion being sold on eBay to support the Rockford Hells Angels chapter. I immediately joined Pinterest.

A vendor, 81rockfordgear, is selling "Support 81 Rockford" shirts, mugs, beer koozies and wrist bands on eBay and Amazon.com. In biker lingo, "81" is the abbreviated numeric acronym for HA. H is the eighth letter (8) in the alphabet and A is the first (1).

I sent a note to 81rockfordgear asking about the stores and what the proceeds from the sale supported. The vendor didn't answer.

Other chapter clubs have online stores.

"Each chapter can do their own thing and they actually make quite a bit of money off the sale of their support gear. It is a legal way to make money." said former cop Chris Omodt, who with former Hells Angels Minneapolis President Pat Matter last month self-published a insider book on the bike gang, "Breaking the Code."

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A sticker for sale on eBay to support Rockford's Hells Angels chapter.

The clubhouse was condemned by the city of Rockford for a litany of code violations that would be costly to fix.

A community activist suggests that Hells Angels property be turned into a parking lot.

If that happens, the clubhouse will become part of Hells Angels history that is archived on Pinterest.

A Pinterest member from Brooklyn, N.Y., who goes by the name Klaus Kinski (it's also the name of a late German actor whose autobiography was described in an Amazon.com review as "Disturbingly violent, sexual, and despairing") has five boards dedicated to Hells Angels culture, including one with images of Hells Angels clubhouses and another featuring "81 support" products.

He's urging people who see 81 support Rockford clothing pinned on his Pinterest page to help the Rockford club.

"I've said it before and I will say it again; 81 Rockford has a great eBay store, but the charter has been going through a (explicative) load of legal troubles. Every cent counts, so support 81 Rockford."